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...jocks are frustrated by the NCAA's rules, which border on incomprehensible, while the punishments for violations can be devastating to both players and their teams. The reform movement sprang from a spate of NCAA suspensions for sins that are, at best, abstruse. Seven big-name players have missed games this season for alleged rules violations that occurred while they were still in high school. Most notably, St. John's University's star point guard, Erick Barkley, was suspended for taking $3,150 in scholarship aid from a church group to help offset his $23,500 prep-school tuition...
This concept, according to the company website, sprang from Park's frustration at having to pay a delivery fee and wait three days for a book he ordered online...
Naishtat and other Democrats believe that the harshness of Bush's positions sprang from his concern for winning Republican presidential primaries. "He did not want to leave himself open to attack on the right by appearing lenient," says Naishtat. House Democrat Glen Maxey remembers a day at the end of the 1999 session when Bush was pumping hard for his full-family-sanctions bill. Maxey and Naishtat were in the members' lounge when Bush aide Terral Smith walked in. "He sat down between us and said, 'We need y'all to have a meeting today to vote'" on the bill...
...puck sprang loose to Dyment at the point, who aimed a slap shot at Prestifilippo's right post. Heron, in an effort to ensure the goal, redirected the shot past Prestifilippo, securing...
...Told that a man likes to wug, they will say yesterday he wugged. Children are not sponges; they're constantly creating sentences and words, never more clearly or charmingly than when they encounter the second flavor of verb, the quirky irregulars. The past tense of spring is sprang, but the past of cling is not clang but clung, and the past of bring is neither brang nor brung but brought. English has 180 irregulars, a ragtag list that kids simply must memorize...